The Luxury Travel Bible's choice for scenic landings is beyond doubt the spectacular Ashford Castle in Ireland, which dates from 1228.

Roger Federer and Andre Agassi played tennis on this pad, and Tiger Woods has tee'd off a (though nobody reported whose skull 321 metres down below his ball might have become embedded in!).

For some reason San Paolo is helipad central - maybe the traffic (and the crime rate) really are that bad.

Just to confuse everybody the Hilton Shanghai recently opened its never-been-used helipad as a function space called, of course, The Helipad.

High flyers fearful of being caught in the Grand Prix gridlock can be whisked over the crowds from the airport to the bay in no time.

OK it's not actually a hotel but Nomads of the Seas ship, the 28-passenger Atmosphere offers one of the only ways to explore remote Chilean Patagonia in real style.

 The China Clipper departure lounge which is under the twin roof top helipads at the hotel oozes old time glamour.

We always knew "W" stood for "whirlybird'.

Shangri-La's new hotel in Doha, scheduled for 2011 will have a helipad balancing atop its awesomely space-age silver-pronged design.